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Travel Blogs from Osaki

... really early here - 4:30 a.m. and goes down at 6:30 p.m. They do not do daylight savings time here. The sun is very bright and beautiful. Haven't gone to a Starbucks or McDonalds yet even though I saw 2 of them. The weather here in Sendai area has been sunny, warm at plus 22 - 24 degrees Celsius. Humidity has been 65 - 85 ...

... down and touch it. There was no light here, and the moon had hidden behind the forests in the distance up above. Besides that, there was a white car parked very close to it. Why would a car be parked here, at this time of night? It made me incredibly uncomfortable. Consider, if you will, how you would feel walking through a dark forest, and you saw a car parked by the road. Granted, it wasn’t actually the middle of the night or anything, but the lack of daylight and the crushing ...

... though. And now here we are in another big city. But this is so different from Sapporo. It's a jeans and T-shirt kind of town full of hustle and bustle. Still lots of parks but all empty as no one seems to like the sun. Women wear sleeves with UV protection which they pull off to bare their beautiful white arms when they go indoors. There are blocks of covered shopping streets with no apparent order; Gucci is next to a running ...

We left the Onsen in the morning and went back to Kakunodate to visit the Samurai houses. At the station you can always leave the baggage in coin lockers, so we could make the walk through the town in a more relaxed way.

Unfortunately it was pouring rain that we became wet - even with the umbrellas and were happy to get inside these samurai houses. They are very big, some of them even free of charge to visit

Had our las two shows of Sendai today, the audience was great in both of them, maintaining the energy towards the pre show that all of the previous shows had. Tonight, Lennea, Chris, Brittany and myself went for dinner and to buy some last minute supplies for our trip to Mount Fuji tomorrow ...